INFO: The Ergesh were an indigenous sapient species from the planet Ergeshui. They were one of the few races in the galaxy that evolved from plant based organisms on their swampy homeworld.
RACE: Ergesh
HEIGHT: 2 Meters Tall
SKIN: Green, brown and gray
DISTINCTION: Natural body armor, environment field belt
LANGUAGE: Ergeshui
HOMEWORLD:Ergeshui was the Ergesh homeworld. Oorglush was built 20 BBY for outworlders. The planet was blockaded by the Empire.
BIOLOGY AND APPEARANCE:The Ergesh are native to Ergeshui, an oppressively hot and humid world. The average Ergesh stands two meters tall and resembles a rounded heap of moving plant matter. Its body is covered with drooping, slimy appendages that range from two centimeters to three meters in length, and from one millimeter to five centimeters in width. Ergesh coloration is a blend of green, brown and gray. The younger Ergesh have more green, the elders more brown. A strong smell of ammonia and rotting vegetation follows an Ergesh wherever it goes. Ergesh have life expectancy of 200 years.
Due to their physiology, Ergesh can breathe underwater, though they do prefer "dry" land. Their thick, wet skin also acts as a strong, protective layer against all manner of weapons.
Ergesh communicate using sound-based speech. Their voices sound like thick mud coming to a rapid boil. In fact, many Ergesh - especially those that deal most with offworlders - speak rather good Basic, though it sounds as if the speaker is talking underwaters. Due to how they perceive and understand the world around them, they often omit personal pronouns (I, me) and articles (a, the), most small words in the Ergesh tongue are represented by vocal inflections.
Ergesh do not have faces in the accepted sense of the word. A number of smaller tentacles are actually optic stalks, the Ergesh equivalent of eyes, while others are sensitive to sound waves.
Ergesh cannot be intoxicated, drugged, or poisoned by most subtances. Their immune systems break down such substances quickly, then the natural secretions carry out the harmful or waste elements.
CULTURE AND HISTORY:The Ergesh specialize in organic machines, most of them "grown" in the are called the "Industrial Swampfields." Ergesh machinery is a fusion of plant matter and manufactured materials. This equipment cannot be deprived of moisture for more than one standard hour, or it ceases to function properly. The Ergesh have their own versions of comlinks, hand computers, and an odd device known as a sensory intensifier, which serves the Ergesh in the same way that macrobinoculars serve humans.
Even Ergesh buildings are organic, and some are semi-sentient. No locks are needed on the dilating doors because the buildings know who they belong to. Ergesh buildings have ramps instead of stairs - indeed, stairs are unheard of, and there is no such word in the native language.
Ergesh are not hesitant about traveling into space. They wear special belts that not only produce a nitrogen field that allows them to breathe, but also retains the vast majority of their moisture. The Ergesh travel in living spaceships called Starjumpers.
The Starjumper is an organic vessel, resembling a huge brown cylinder 30 meters wide, with long green biologically engineered creatures, not life forms native to Ergeshui. The tentacles act as navigational, fire control and communications appendages for the ship-creature. This versatile vessel is able to make planetary landings. All Starjumpers are sentient creatures whose huge bulks can survive the harsh rigors of space. In fact, the Ergesh and the Starjumpers share a symbiotic relationship.
APPEARANCES:None
SOURCES:Planets of the Galaxy, Volume Two
The Essential Atlas
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